Used in a Sentence

cliffs

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for cliffs.

Editorial note

The very scale of the cliffs means that you probably wouldn't notice unless the open parachute passed through your field of vision.

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Quick take

(informal) Cliff notes

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(informal) Cliff notes

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cliffs.

noun

(informal) Cliff notes

Example sentences

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The very scale of the cliffs means that you probably wouldn't notice unless the open parachute passed through your field of vision.

2

Mine used to get me to stand next to him on the edge of cliffs labelled unsafe.

3

The status quo is an attempt to walk a knife-edge ridge with cliffs on both sides.

4

It's arbitrary that jumping from those cliffs is illegal, but climbing them or whatever is not.

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An example might be a tree on top of a hill, compare that to that tree's shadow on some high cliffs.

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Fyi, the same rules apply when rescuing people from cliffs or other high places.

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This touches in to pg's point about cliffs (which I understand means when you leave, your equity leaves too) and jasonlbaptiste's point about clear roles and responsibilities.

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In the US there are a lot of cliffs in the support system.

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I absolutely adore the mental image of Dark Souls using its invisible hand to push players off of cliffs.

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The really perverse thing is where some of these benefits have income cliffs, where you lose the benefit if you make too much money working.

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You can even slowly vary the scaling function so that you can have everything from river deltas to cliffs in different parts of the world.

12

Throw in some appropriate generation of beaches, riverbanks, and ocean cliffs.

Quote examples

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Given that you hired a contractor, and that presumably your technology is your whole company's value (you seem to think it's almost all of the work that's been done), I'm not sure why it'd be okay to take that elsewhere, except by virtue of "these guys don't deserve it!" The correct answer to "these guys don't deserve it" is to have clauses to handle that in your business documents--vesting, cliffs, etc.

Proper noun examples

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Coddington, 'An Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations', Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1961.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use cliffs in a sentence?

The very scale of the cliffs means that you probably wouldn't notice unless the open parachute passed through your field of vision.

What does cliffs mean?

(informal) Cliff notes

What part of speech is cliffs?

cliffs is commonly used as noun.